I really enjoy your videos. I love how you show the graphics of the airspace etc that give us the viewer the bigger picture. Informative too. Humble and interesting to watch. As a microlight instructor I encourage my students to watch them.
This was a wise decision with great educational value, especially for dynamic map representation of the actual flight and clear radio communication. These videos are getting better by the day! Congratulations!
Another great video Terry! The journey home was a real pain and I ended up going back 2 days later to pick GOOPY up. My arrival was fine, but as soon as I got out the plane I knew I would be stuck!
Your friend Vince made the correct decision. As Juan Browne of the Blancolirio Channel always says, "its not worth taking a risk with weather, get your Credit Card out & book a room till it improves".
First time watching - good and interesting video. Found myself scrubbing at the stains on my monitor - only to realise its on the camera or windscreen. 😁
Great video and demonstration of safe airmanship. You're too harsh on yourself. You made the correct decision regardless of whether you think it was too late. Also, great SA by contacting Turweston early. Even fellow pilots in the circuit told you it was a good decision. I'm sure you'll take some valuable LFE from this. Keep flying safely 👍
Interesting stuff. Can you get a 'talk-through' with other pilots over the net or would that be by 'private' radio (or even mobile) communication? Also another question; if you need to leave your aircraft at an airfield, such as what happened to your friend, are there the aviation equivalent of mooring fees charged by the airfield?
Thanks for the comment. It’s not normal for air to ground radio to be used as a chat channel, normal procedure is to relay through the station operator, however a quick question or answer air to air is OK but the idea is to keep the channel clear. You pay a landing fee at most airfields in the UK, for smaller ones it’s usually between £10-£25 for a light single engined aircraft and can be over £100 for bigger airports and that’s if they even let you land. Parking is usually included in the landing fee for a few hours, however overnight would be more and would be more expensive if the aircraft was hangared. Hope that helps.
Good call Terry. I was taught that if possible to fly towards the bad weather so if you have to return it’ll be into clearer skies. This was a perfect example of that advice. If you’d been half an hour earlier you could well have been stuck like Vince
Yes that £100 coffee cost him a bit more than that as he had to go back again 2 days later to collect G-OOPY. I think mine was more luck than judgement and if I had known he had got there I would have tried a bit harder and who knows where that would have ended up. Thanks for your always great comments Geoffrey.
Good video as normal Terry. Vince went for it and paid the price of having to leave his aircraft there and then pick it up another day. You did the right thing, if a little (a lot for me) late, but got back safe with your aircraft in easy reach for next time you want to fly. It is always good to fly towards the rubbish weather, so you don't get cut off from home, as most of it comes from the West; My base is good for that (being so far East), but it also means on iffy days, doing a local flight, the land out options can close quickly.
Some friends of mine were walking on the Malvern Hills on a very foggy day and had a conversation with a helicopter pilot who was totally lost.. had some passengers on their way to Brum, they had to walk down some muddy paths then caught the train, pilot went back west where he'd come from. The whole of the Severn Valley can be like this, pretty stunning scenery.
Haven't got the best experience from when I did some work experience at Turweston 😂, but locally there is a grass strip called Banbury Airfield which I think you'd like, been meaning to go myself seems interesting it's also very local for myself but it may be worth a visit... Not much around though unfortunately, could try Wellesbourne aswell. Anyways good video, keep up the good work 👍👍
@@typhoon2827 this is a guy enjoying his passion and hobby in an aircraft powered by a fuel efficient low-emission engine. How do you travel to undertake your hobby? In a fossil-fuel powered vehicle?
Thanks for sharing. I tend to be quite conservative about what weather I want to go cross country in, and this makes me feel better about it. Turning back was a good decision.
That was the nice one to get your buddy there. Lesson for him. Fly alone and not to take any appointments, than you can quit and turn back with no pressure.
I’m in an interesting place at the moment…sort of in a “pre-buying” haze trying to figure out what i might want. At first, I was thinking an Ercoupe or something like that might be cheap and easy to start with. But lately, I’ve been really interested in these Piper/Czech sports. I did the bulk of my training in an RV-12 and ultimately got my ticket in one. At this point, I’m pretty hopelessly spoiled by avionics and things of that nature, which is kind of a shame. So I’ve been thinking RV-12, sport cruiser, RV-12, sport cruiser. They both have aspects that i like…I think i need to get up and fly in a cruiser at some point. They look “nicer” and less bare bones than many RV-12s (and their prices reflect that). But I think i need to experience one for a few hours to see if that’s the direction i wanna go in since buying an airplane is a little more akin to buying a condo or a nice boat than a car.
Lucky you were not flying nor breathing in the smogs of the 50’s and early 60’s. Following our blind neighbour helped with a safe passage. It did stink and hurt your lungs.
It wasn't that long ago that places like Stoke on Trent was overarched by a black cloud. And there's weird fog (with flakes in it) and snow (slime and spores within) again too, coincides with plethora of drone sightings as well, GB & US.
I often see others going places and probably think I’m a bit on the conservative side if the TAFs /Metars don’t look that good, but then others I know won’t fly in conditions that I might. I think this is a great example of our abilities and when to make that decision to turn back or divert. Is it the end of the world if we have to get a train home and come back another day, not really, at least we are all safe…. Another great video Terry…
I've bailed out on destinations because of weather before too, "Get-there-itis" kills too many pilots! Nice and clear here today, nice for flying....except it's -34C and windy
Yep, don't mess with the weather. Many people have been killed when deciding, "Well, I'll go in and take a look. I can turn back if it turns out to be bad." People have done just that only to find out that their route back out is socked in with bad weather and their only escape is now cut off. Break out the Star Wars fish-guy, "It's a trap!"
Good decision. I suppose any delay may have been hoping against hope that it wasn't as bad as it was, then dawning on you that it really was. Poor Vince having to leave his aircraft there and get the train. Also, from a Meteorological standpoint, it is worth remembering that forecasts may for the arrival of a front, rather than cloud in advance of the front. Not saying you didn't know, just that it is worth everyone remembering the difference between front edge and cloud edge.
@Payne2view Great comment. Good pilots hope against hope and then realise the hope is gone. Bad pilots hope against hope until it's too late with tragic consequences
Good decision to turn around - and as you say, with hindsight could/should probably have been made earlier - but then that's the way it goes sometimes and we don't make perfect decisions all the time!
Yes, pointless to continue as long as you did. There was zero chance you'd have got home after lunch, even if you did get in. And Windy shows you real time satellite images which help a lot in these situations. I monitor Windy in flight.
good decision if the aircraft is unable IFR. I like Oxford and Gloucester as alternates for turdy if the weather gets that bad....can at least get an approach there.
Been flying and gliding 57 years, golden rule, if in doubt, TURN BACK or divert into safe airspace or airfield. Weather is fickle, and pollution and climate change is affecting things adversely. Safety first ALWAYS. John.FAI/BGA 51417.
I very much doubt that's someone having a dirty garden bonfire. Either some sort of unplanned fire incident involving building, scrapyard etc. or perhaps some our great British farmers taking a day off from polluting the rivers with run-off to burn some stubble.
Being up in controlled airspace would of helped you with the radios btw The range of your radios, where Distance = 1.23 × √h, where h = altitude in feet. At 3000 ft, range ≈ 67 nm if terrain is at sea level.
There is a reluctance for GA pilots to use CA in the UK, not sure why as it's pretty rare to get refusal of entry. Our small air to ground radio units sort of suggest 10 miles as they are really low power, however you can deffo pick up the aircraft in the area even at 30 miles or so. Thanks Glenn
07:00 You say you could have made the decision a lot earlier but I think that's overly critical on yourself. You continued until you thought it was unfeasible/unsafe to do so, and as soon as that happened you turned back. You didn't put yourself in an unsafe/illegal situation so I don't think it was necessary to turn back any earlier in my opinion. Shame you missed out on lunch though!
Quite early it became pretty clear that it would be unsafe to land and virtually impossible to land, have lunch and get out of there again. I agree with ShortField and respect him for being so self-conscious about his decision. With the view he had of the incoming weather, there was no point in continuing that far.
Hi Terry, I really enjoy your vids, and find them useful for my training, but that black smoke could have been from an apartment block, for all we, or you, know. Please don't start to get political, or 'woke' in your vlogs.
I dont get it would you not be better of with a full PPL with instrument rating allowing you to fly in cloud and at night rater than this sort of situation You have skills so why not go the full 9 yds it has to be worth it
@@stephenskinner3851Definitely something with carbons in it. Likely a heap of tyres or something similar. Very much like the fire a few years ago near Sherburn Airfield. It drifted for days and could be seen from miles away. Proved to be a good navaid though (joking)
@ShortField so what happens when the cloud layer is 100% and you can only fly vfr? You appear to have an instrument rating so maybe not a problem as you can revert to ifr to get down. What if only vfr rating?
@@DanRyan-v5y it's the aircraft that's the issue it's only allowed to fly in non-IMC conditions. It has a light wing loading that prohibits flight in the clouds. I never try to get myself in a situation with this aircraft where IMC is the only option.
I know, I wasn’t sure what title to use, maybe you are correct I will have another think. I found out later that the black smoke was from undesirable people burning tyres so it was disgusting that people should be allowed to do this. Thanks for the feedback.
Good call re the turn back. Been there done that, pushed down to 650'. Long story but it wasn't gethereitus on my part, although we could have landed out, marginally, we made it home. Lesson learned. I find flight sims help with practicing such scenarios too🤫🤫🤔🤔🤞 Pollution? Thats nothing compared to e.g. Stoke on Trent in the late 1960s. Secondly its miniscule compared to the thousands of tons pumped out of each CCP factory, each Indian factory. Thirdly? Even the met office has admitted that atmospheric spraying and ge0ngineering is taking place, then retracted its statement with other msm shills such as the Bilderberg Broadcasting Corporation covering its tracks. We know cloud seeding takes place, thats a known fact. Weather manipulation has been weaponised. Add in the art of war (Sun Tzu) and war through commerce and the psychopaths running the asylum? Note weird weather patterns, cold through to June last year, heating on some nights, yet reporting was higher temps. Why? Ask yourself where some of the monitors are placed. Recently reports are coming in too, re fog that has large flake like particles in it, making people sick. Along with snow thats slimy and grows spors. All very Morgollens disease to my mind. Coincides with mass drone sightings and microsatellites too, according to some. Ive been an environmentalist for nearly 50 years and this country is already ultra low emissions, and suiciding itself to a pointless Net Zero (we are low on carbon but high on hidden pollution and 70,000 released unregistered chemicals, plus plsstics, whilst China, India et al pump out tons and tons of pollution each day). Like the emperor's new clothes, we are being conned. Its being added to by mining of rare earth materials, filthy dangerous supply chains. Wind turbines and EVs (Li-Ion) appear clean too, but they're far from clean (we are not and cannot recycle them). Remember fires can leave smoke trails for miles too. I feel your anger, but its misdirected and all of our eyes need to, accusingly, turn towards those suposed to protect and serve us, but serve only their greed and hubris and whatever they worship.
I found out later that this was down to some undesirables burning, amongst other nasty stuff, rubber tyres. Thanks for your amazing comment and fantastic support as always.
@ShortField Always welcome - interesting video once again. Good point about your mate, 30-40 min flight can turn into an hours long drive (two way) and/or train journey, or worse, taxi fare😲😲 Yuk, tyres are nasty, need to be reused, recycled, granulated or burned at ultra high temperatures and used as fuel (with correct filtration etc). No wonder it was black! We had a poorly run scrap yard catch light, burned for weeks, nasty chemicals in the air. The old engine sheds were unearthed 20-30 years after closure, for new builds, the clinker/coal dust etc caught light again. The worst are chemical fires, Li-Ion plant went up in California, not good. Mind you as with the fires in Australia in 2019/20 (I've friends there and visiting at the time) it's not all down to Carbon Climate Change, arson was the main cause, activists, same with fires a year or two back outside London, MSM reported CCC, found to be illegal immigrants (but MSM didn't revisit that story). California has been badly mismanaged, similar with floods here, cutbacks, wilful negligence, my grandfathers would be shocked by the neglect. I understand in parts of North America and here, they're not leaving fire breaks in forests. Negligence, idiocy or an agenda, whatever it is, it's a disaster waiting to happen. Forest fires are natural, animals know them, if they can get away they will, but humanity needs to manage them prior, to litteraly avoid fire fighting. I'll get me coat😲🤔🙄😀 Happy flying mate, always a pleasure, never a chore✌️💜😊
I doubt that. I always wore a peaked cap and its particularly important under that canopy. Pilots are taught to constantly move their head to scan the sky rather than just rely on peripheral vision for visual clues. Is that a spot on the canopy/windscreen or another aircraft on a constant closing course?
@ just for context, I’m a relatively experienced GA pilot with around 2,000 hrs. Of course a good lookout whilst flying is critically important as you have said and I have no doubt your airmanship skills are top notch but I really do think that some pilots underestimate the value of peripheral vision. I totally get the issue with the canopy and the need to protect yourself from glare and sun but I would urge anyone to seriously consider the peripheral vision issue whilst choosing headwear to fly with. Just my thoughts and not a “dig” feel free to ignore 👍 Tony
Thanks Tony not an arse, good point, probably don't need it on a day like this but when the suns out I'd rather have the cap than cover the canopy with the blind which is more restrictive. Appreciate the comment and it's a great point.
I really enjoy your videos. I love how you show the graphics of the airspace etc that give us the viewer the bigger picture. Informative too. Humble and interesting to watch. As a microlight instructor I encourage my students to watch them.
Sarah I love your comments and support and it makes me feel so proud that you would use these in your professional role. 🙏🙏🙏🙏
This was a wise decision with great educational value, especially for dynamic map representation of the actual flight and clear radio communication. These videos are getting better by the day! Congratulations!
Amazing comment thanks so much really appreciate the kind words sir.
Another great video Terry! The journey home was a real pain and I ended up going back 2 days later to pick GOOPY up. My arrival was fine, but as soon as I got out the plane I knew I would be stuck!
Cheers Vince, good job we went back and had that lunch a couple of weeks later.
Good decision and good explanations. Cheers.
Thanks so much for the kind comment 👍
@@ShortField shout if you’re ever heading to EGHA.
low hour private pilot your videos help me a lot gain some virtual experience, and i am sure i am not alone ! Keep up the great work !!
Totally agree and this one is a blinder
In my opinion this video is a great example of if you don't know what to say just speak English, when radioing
My RT is trash and I've been flying for over 30 years, think it would be better by now :-)
Amazing Captain, thank you.
Cheers sir.
Brilliant video, sir! Your honest narrative of your assessment and thought process is very educational for the general aviation community.
Thanks so much for the lovely comment sir. 🙏
Your friend Vince made the correct decision. As Juan Browne of the Blancolirio Channel always says, "its not worth taking a risk with weather, get your Credit Card out & book a room till it improves".
Amen.
That was some really sneaky weather. Looks like that might've been a house fire, or pile of tires burning. Thanks for the video. :)
Think it was burning tyres Thomas, some people make me so angry. Not you though, you make me happy with your kind comment.
@@ShortField :)
Just had a thought for a video....
Can you fly into Duxford (about 30 miles from you) and do a video tour around the museum?
Just an idea.
For me it would be a 400+ mile round trip. I dont need to do another cross country flight. :-)
I did a bit of one here ua-cam.com/video/vqdgBdt26GQ/v-deo.htmlsi=AJiA1PRHX5TR92oj
First time watching - good and interesting video. Found myself scrubbing at the stains on my monitor - only to realise its on the camera or windscreen. 😁
LoL thanks for the watch and comment, really appreciated.
A great example of sound decision making under VFR. Well done you AND Vince! 👏
Thanks for the video.
Thank you Dave! 👍
Great video and demonstration of safe airmanship. You're too harsh on yourself. You made the correct decision regardless of whether you think it was too late. Also, great SA by contacting Turweston early. Even fellow pilots in the circuit told you it was a good decision. I'm sure you'll take some valuable LFE from this. Keep flying safely 👍
Thanks for the kind words 👍
Fascinating! I had no idea how complicated it can be. Great content.
Thanks Rich, still can't get that 3D working as I'd like for the explainers.
Good real life demo of how the weather can turn.
Thanks for sharing.
Thanking you.
Really good video, love the graphics explaining the control areas and levels.
Thanks it's only because I can't do 3D :-)
Cracking cafe at Turweston. Last time I was there they were testing a Le Mans Aston Martin GT car up and down the runway.
Interesting stuff. Can you get a 'talk-through' with other pilots over the net or would that be by 'private' radio (or even mobile) communication? Also another question; if you need to leave your aircraft at an airfield, such as what happened to your friend, are there the aviation equivalent of mooring fees charged by the airfield?
Thanks for the comment. It’s not normal for air to ground radio to be used as a chat channel, normal procedure is to relay through the station operator, however a quick question or answer air to air is OK but the idea is to keep the channel clear. You pay a landing fee at most airfields in the UK, for smaller ones it’s usually between £10-£25 for a light single engined aircraft and can be over £100 for bigger airports and that’s if they even let you land. Parking is usually included in the landing fee for a few hours, however overnight would be more and would be more expensive if the aircraft was hangared. Hope that helps.
@@ShortField Great, thank you.
Good call Terry. I was taught that if possible to fly towards the bad weather so if you have to return it’ll be into clearer skies. This was a perfect example of that advice. If you’d been half an hour earlier you could well have been stuck like Vince
Yes that £100 coffee cost him a bit more than that as he had to go back again 2 days later to collect G-OOPY. I think mine was more luck than judgement and if I had known he had got there I would have tried a bit harder and who knows where that would have ended up. Thanks for your always great comments Geoffrey.
You did the right thing Terry turning back.👍
It took long enough to register tough :-)
@@ShortField You knew what was behind you mate, good call. Did it many times back in the 80's. I'm an old pilot not a bold pilot.
Good video as normal Terry. Vince went for it and paid the price of having to leave his aircraft there and then pick it up another day. You did the right thing, if a little (a lot for me) late, but got back safe with your aircraft in easy reach for next time you want to fly. It is always good to fly towards the rubbish weather, so you don't get cut off from home, as most of it comes from the West; My base is good for that (being so far East), but it also means on iffy days, doing a local flight, the land out options can close quickly.
Thanks Algy yes I suppose with your base if the weather reaches it while you’re still in the air your next land out to the east is in Holland 🤣
@@ShortField 🙂 I would need a little air to air refueling 🙂
Better to be on the ground wishing to be flying than in the air wishing you were on the ground.
Very true.
Some friends of mine were walking on the Malvern Hills on a very foggy day and had a conversation with a helicopter pilot who was totally lost.. had some passengers on their way to Brum, they had to walk down some muddy paths then caught the train, pilot went back west where he'd come from.
The whole of the Severn Valley can be like this, pretty stunning scenery.
What nav app do you prefer and why?
I use SkyDemon as does most of the private VFR flyers in the UK and in fact most of Europe.
I love your animations! They are fantastic!
Cheers Geoff, are we meeting in the spring?
@ Yes please, if you’re able? 👏🏼👍🏼
Late, but correct decision.
Great decision making by you both...."Old and Bold" pilots spring to mind. Keep up the good work👍
Cheers Andy 👍
Haven't got the best experience from when I did some work experience at Turweston 😂, but locally there is a grass strip called Banbury Airfield which I think you'd like, been meaning to go myself seems interesting it's also very local for myself but it may be worth a visit... Not much around though unfortunately, could try Wellesbourne aswell.
Anyways good video, keep up the good work 👍👍
Thank you.
Great video thank for posting, very good decision, you took all the pressure off by using all your options, and making an early decision.
Thank you.
"This is disgusting pollution", says a bloke flying to a cafe. Pollution for me but not for thee!!
you're only jealous
@@typhoon2827 this is a guy enjoying his passion and hobby in an aircraft powered by a fuel efficient low-emission engine. How do you travel to undertake your hobby? In a fossil-fuel powered vehicle?
That is very true, but I found out later that it was undesirables burning tyres.
Thanks for sharing. I tend to be quite conservative about what weather I want to go cross country in, and this makes me feel better about it. Turning back was a good decision.
Cheers Paul, pushed it a bit more than I should have though.
Awesome video. Very helpful. Thanks for sharing.
That was the nice one to get your buddy there. Lesson for him. Fly alone and not to take any appointments, than you can quit and turn back with no pressure.
Thanks for the comment 👍
I’m in an interesting place at the moment…sort of in a “pre-buying” haze trying to figure out what i might want. At first, I was thinking an Ercoupe or something like that might be cheap and easy to start with. But lately, I’ve been really interested in these Piper/Czech sports. I did the bulk of my training in an RV-12 and ultimately got my ticket in one. At this point, I’m pretty hopelessly spoiled by avionics and things of that nature, which is kind of a shame. So I’ve been thinking RV-12, sport cruiser, RV-12, sport cruiser. They both have aspects that i like…I think i need to get up and fly in a cruiser at some point. They look “nicer” and less bare bones than many RV-12s (and their prices reflect that). But I think i need to experience one for a few hours to see if that’s the direction i wanna go in since buying an airplane is a little more akin to buying a condo or a nice boat than a car.
Where are based?
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I’m across the pond from you…i fly out of KPSM 👍
Lucky you were not flying nor breathing in the smogs of the 50’s and early 60’s. Following our blind neighbour helped with a safe passage. It did stink and hurt your lungs.
It wasn't that long ago that places like Stoke on Trent was overarched by a black cloud. And there's weird fog (with flakes in it) and snow (slime and spores within) again too, coincides with plethora of drone sightings as well, GB & US.
I often see others going places and probably think I’m a bit on the conservative side if the TAFs /Metars don’t look that good, but then others I know won’t fly in conditions that I might. I think this is a great example of our abilities and when to make that decision to turn back or divert. Is it the end of the world if we have to get a train home and come back another day, not really, at least we are all safe…. Another great video Terry…
Thanks Dave, we must go flying together in the spring 👍👍👍
Thank you for this brilliant video! Excellent as always 👌🏻
No thank you for watching and engaging.
Thank you for sharing this, what great decision making :)
I've bailed out on destinations because of weather before too, "Get-there-itis" kills too many pilots!
Nice and clear here today, nice for flying....except it's -34C and windy
Cheers Bill -34, no thanks :-)
Good call, didn't come too late. Better that than getting stuck on the other end or worse, mate.
Agreed, thank you.
Yep, don't mess with the weather. Many people have been killed when deciding, "Well, I'll go in and take a look. I can turn back if it turns out to be bad." People have done just that only to find out that their route back out is socked in with bad weather and their only escape is now cut off. Break out the Star Wars fish-guy, "It's a trap!"
Wise words Yoda.
@@ShortField
Wise words of pilots born way before me.
Appreciate the video. Thank you 👍😊
Thanks so much 🫡
Good decision. I suppose any delay may have been hoping against hope that it wasn't as bad as it was, then dawning on you that it really was. Poor Vince having to leave his aircraft there and get the train. Also, from a Meteorological standpoint, it is worth remembering that forecasts may for the arrival of a front, rather than cloud in advance of the front. Not saying you didn't know, just that it is worth everyone remembering the difference between front edge and cloud edge.
@Payne2view Great comment. Good pilots hope against hope and then realise the hope is gone. Bad pilots hope against hope until it's too late with tragic consequences
Superb comment.
Good decision to turn around - and as you say, with hindsight could/should probably have been made earlier - but then that's the way it goes sometimes and we don't make perfect decisions all the time!
Cheers Mike, I'll never ever be perfect, but that's OK.
Good decision making there, and saved yourself a train ride! Poor Vince... 🤣
He had to get the train back again 2 days later.
@@ShortField yeah I was thinking how was he going to go back, I thought you might have given him a lift in the SportCruiser. 😅
Is that a $100 nothingburger?
Yep washed down with $150 of wasted fuel :-)
Yes, pointless to continue as long as you did. There was zero chance you'd have got home after lunch, even if you did get in. And Windy shows you real time satellite images which help a lot in these situations. I monitor Windy in flight.
Good comment.
Skid mark in the clouds. Brilliant! 😂 🤢
That's exactly what it was :-)
Good decision, and a valuable lesson for us all!
Thank you.
good decision if the aircraft is unable IFR. I like Oxford and Gloucester as alternates for turdy if the weather gets that bad....can at least get an approach there.
They are great but wx usually coming west to east so they get wiped out before Turweston usually. VFR only in a Pipersport :-(
Good decision. No harm in flying on over since weather was ahead. Flying is fun!
Thanking you.
Click bait title gets a down vote no matter what the content is.
Thanks for policing UA-cam for us. Apologies.
Nice one Terry!
Thanks Tim 👍
The sky looks filthy
Burning tyres I think.
Been flying and gliding 57 years, golden rule, if in doubt, TURN BACK or divert into safe airspace or airfield.
Weather is fickle, and pollution and climate change is affecting things adversely.
Safety first ALWAYS.
John.FAI/BGA 51417.
Great comment.
- and you think those clouds are normal?
It was all a bit miserable 😞
I very much doubt that's someone having a dirty garden bonfire. Either some sort of unplanned fire incident involving building, scrapyard etc. or perhaps some our great British farmers taking a day off from polluting the rivers with run-off to burn some stubble.
Yes it was some undesirables burning tyres!
Being up in controlled airspace would of helped you with the radios btw
The range of your radios, where Distance = 1.23 × √h, where h = altitude in feet. At 3000 ft, range ≈ 67 nm if terrain is at sea level.
There is a reluctance for GA pilots to use CA in the UK, not sure why as it's pretty rare to get refusal of entry. Our small air to ground radio units sort of suggest 10 miles as they are really low power, however you can deffo pick up the aircraft in the area even at 30 miles or so. Thanks Glenn
many thanks, glad you good ,great vid
Thank you for the kind words 🙏
07:00 You say you could have made the decision a lot earlier but I think that's overly critical on yourself. You continued until you thought it was unfeasible/unsafe to do so, and as soon as that happened you turned back. You didn't put yourself in an unsafe/illegal situation so I don't think it was necessary to turn back any earlier in my opinion. Shame you missed out on lunch though!
Quite early it became pretty clear that it would be unsafe to land and virtually impossible to land, have lunch and get out of there again. I agree with ShortField and respect him for being so self-conscious about his decision. With the view he had of the incoming weather, there was no point in continuing that far.
Thank you sir, I was really hungry when I got back :-)
Cheers for the support.
Hi Terry, I really enjoy your vids, and find them useful for my training, but that black smoke could have been from an apartment block, for all we, or you, know. Please don't start to get political, or 'woke' in your vlogs.
Good choice to turn around.
Yeah should of clicked earlier tough. Thank you.
I think I heard Ian in LT......commenting turning round was a good decision.
Yes I think it was.
@@ShortField another great video by the way. This type of weather pattern seems to be quite regular this season.
I dont get it would you not be better of with a full PPL with instrument rating allowing you to fly in cloud and at night rater than this sort of situation You have skills so why not go the full 9 yds it has to be worth it
Looks like a fire.
@@stephenskinner3851Definitely something with carbons in it. Likely a heap of tyres or something similar. Very much like the fire a few years ago near Sherburn Airfield. It drifted for days and could be seen from miles away. Proved to be a good navaid though (joking)
That's exactly what it is and you can guess who the culprits were.
@@ShortField I couldn't possibly respond to that 🤣
Could easily have been a fire
Yes I found out later that it was undesirables burning tyres. 😔
Turweston best cake in the cafe victoria spong
That and Bakewell is my fav.
Great aeronautical decision making
Thank you.
Thats flying, niet zeuren man
Sure is, Danke schön.
I thought you couldnt fly vfr above a closed cloud layer, because you cannot get down vfr
You can in UK have to have 1,000ft between you and the cloud layer though.
@ShortField so what happens when the cloud layer is 100% and you can only fly vfr? You appear to have an instrument rating so maybe not a problem as you can revert to ifr to get down. What if only vfr rating?
@@DanRyan-v5y it's the aircraft that's the issue it's only allowed to fly in non-IMC conditions. It has a light wing loading that prohibits flight in the clouds. I never try to get myself in a situation with this aircraft where IMC is the only option.
@ShortField ok thanks, makes sense
No lunch then?
great food at The Millibar restaurant at Andrewsfield 😋
No, took a Twix in my flight bag but it wasn't very filling.
Always good to make the decision to abort, press-on-itus causes more problems.
Got to that decision eventually Giles 😂😂
0:15 😭
What's there?
@ it’s a Douglas C-54 which after years of effort to save it is currently being scrapped
What was disgusting?
Disgusting that UA-cam allows this title.....
I know, I wasn’t sure what title to use, maybe you are correct I will have another think. I found out later that the black smoke was from undesirable people burning tyres so it was disgusting that people should be allowed to do this. Thanks for the feedback.
Good call re the turn back. Been there done that, pushed down to 650'. Long story but it wasn't gethereitus on my part, although we could have landed out, marginally, we made it home. Lesson learned. I find flight sims help with practicing such scenarios too🤫🤫🤔🤔🤞
Pollution? Thats nothing compared to e.g. Stoke on Trent in the late 1960s. Secondly its miniscule compared to the thousands of tons pumped out of each CCP factory, each Indian factory. Thirdly? Even the met office has admitted that atmospheric spraying and ge0ngineering is taking place, then retracted its statement with other msm shills such as the Bilderberg Broadcasting Corporation covering its tracks. We know cloud seeding takes place, thats a known fact. Weather manipulation has been weaponised. Add in the art of war (Sun Tzu) and war through commerce and the psychopaths running the asylum? Note weird weather patterns, cold through to June last year, heating on some nights, yet reporting was higher temps. Why? Ask yourself where some of the monitors are placed.
Recently reports are coming in too, re fog that has large flake like particles in it, making people sick. Along with snow thats slimy and grows spors. All very Morgollens disease to my mind. Coincides with mass drone sightings and microsatellites too, according to some.
Ive been an environmentalist for nearly 50 years and this country is already ultra low emissions, and suiciding itself to a pointless Net Zero (we are low on carbon but high on hidden pollution and 70,000 released unregistered chemicals, plus plsstics, whilst China, India et al pump out tons and tons of pollution each day).
Like the emperor's new clothes, we are being conned.
Its being added to by mining of rare earth materials, filthy dangerous supply chains. Wind turbines and EVs (Li-Ion) appear clean too, but they're far from clean (we are not and cannot recycle them).
Remember fires can leave smoke trails for miles too.
I feel your anger, but its misdirected and all of our eyes need to, accusingly, turn towards those suposed to protect and serve us, but serve only their greed and hubris and whatever they worship.
I found out later that this was down to some undesirables burning, amongst other nasty stuff, rubber tyres. Thanks for your amazing comment and fantastic support as always.
@ShortField Always welcome - interesting video once again. Good point about your mate, 30-40 min flight can turn into an hours long drive (two way) and/or train journey, or worse, taxi fare😲😲
Yuk, tyres are nasty, need to be reused, recycled, granulated or burned at ultra high temperatures and used as fuel (with correct filtration etc). No wonder it was black!
We had a poorly run scrap yard catch light, burned for weeks, nasty chemicals in the air. The old engine sheds were unearthed 20-30 years after closure, for new builds, the clinker/coal dust etc caught light again.
The worst are chemical fires, Li-Ion plant went up in California, not good.
Mind you as with the fires in Australia in 2019/20 (I've friends there and visiting at the time) it's not all down to Carbon Climate Change, arson was the main cause, activists, same with fires a year or two back outside London, MSM reported CCC, found to be illegal immigrants (but MSM didn't revisit that story). California has been badly mismanaged, similar with floods here, cutbacks, wilful negligence, my grandfathers would be shocked by the neglect. I understand in parts of North America and here, they're not leaving fire breaks in forests. Negligence, idiocy or an agenda, whatever it is, it's a disaster waiting to happen. Forest fires are natural, animals know them, if they can get away they will, but humanity needs to manage them prior, to litteraly avoid fire fighting.
I'll get me coat😲🤔🙄😀
Happy flying mate, always a pleasure, never a chore✌️💜😊
Not wanting to sound like an arse mate but you’re robbing yourself of almost all of your vertical peripheral vision with the cap you’re wearing.
I doubt that. I always wore a peaked cap and its particularly important under that canopy. Pilots are taught to constantly move their head to scan the sky rather than just rely on peripheral vision for visual clues.
Is that a spot on the canopy/windscreen or another aircraft on a constant closing course?
@ just for context, I’m a relatively experienced GA pilot with around 2,000 hrs. Of course a good lookout whilst flying is critically important as you have said and I have no doubt your airmanship skills are top notch but I really do think that some pilots underestimate the value of peripheral vision. I totally get the issue with the canopy and the need to protect yourself from glare and sun but I would urge anyone to seriously consider the peripheral vision issue whilst choosing headwear to fly with.
Just my thoughts and not a “dig” feel free to ignore 👍
Tony
Maybe he wants to shield his eyes and face from the sun.
Thanks Tony not an arse, good point, probably don't need it on a day like this but when the suns out I'd rather have the cap than cover the canopy with the blind which is more restrictive. Appreciate the comment and it's a great point.